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Speaker 1: four oh five, David Gascon is too busy to do
Speaker 1: the podcast this weekend, and so we are joined. For
Speaker 1: better or worse, by Kevin O'Connell, who has filled in
Speaker 1: for Cooper Loop. In fact, last week he filled in
Speaker 1: for Cooper Loop and he's here for his maiden voyage
Speaker 1: on the podcast. So, Kevin, I hope you're prepared for this.
Speaker 1: You know, I figured Ben two times this week wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: I had to fill in for gascon too and get
Speaker 1: you a couple more times. Third times the charm, third
Speaker 1: time charm exactly. It's been a busy week with you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: as your life changed in the magical ways that you've
Speaker 1: been on the show so much, just drastically, I mean
Speaker 1: ways I can't even explain on air. Yeah, you have
Speaker 1: a little more pep in your staff. And he pumped
Speaker 1: your chest out a little bit, walk around like a peacock. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, what's up with Kevin today? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I've been working with Ben Mallery this week. What do
Speaker 1: you expect? You know? And then they say who who?
Speaker 1: You explain? You explain who it is. It's a whole,
Speaker 1: it's a hole to do and all that, so very brandish. Well,
Speaker 1: I know a little bit about you about can we
Speaker 1: put you on the hot seat? Are we allowed to
Speaker 1: do that? Of course? Is your show, you tell me, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So you're from Orange County, right, I'm from Orange County,
Speaker 1: but you're Boston. Your family's a Boston families that correct?
Speaker 1: In that correct? Yes, I'm born and raised in Orange County,
Speaker 1: North Orange County, pacentially for the most part. And my
Speaker 1: dad is from Rhode Island, so not technically Boston, but
Speaker 1: close enough Rhode Island. I still have family back there,
Speaker 1: my cousins in Maine, one cousins in downtown Boston, and
Speaker 1: my aunt and uncle are still in Rhode Island actually,
Speaker 1: so yes, background of all Boston teams. So when you
Speaker 1: were younger, did you always go to like the Rhode
Speaker 1: Island and Boston went for vacations? So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: been there plenty of times. And then now, you know,
Speaker 1: once I turned twenty one, and then I say, pretty
Speaker 1: much just in Boston. Yeah of course, why would you
Speaker 1: really get all the bars and all that going on
Speaker 1: in Boston? So sure? And then now have you ever
Speaker 1: thought about working in Boston? Moving to Boston? I would
Speaker 1: love to. Yeah, I've looked up jobs at you know,
Speaker 1: of course, w E. I you've talked about it before.
Speaker 1: I think you worked there for a little bit I did,
Speaker 1: and you know, big fans of those guys. Of course,
Speaker 1: that's where I get most of my Boston content from.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I've looked up jobs for sure, and I
Speaker 1: would absolutely move there. The only thing that would stop
Speaker 1: me would obviously be the weather. Of course. Yeah, it's nasty, man,
Speaker 1: And I've only been there for like a week at
Speaker 1: a time when the weather is horrible, or a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks at a time when the weather is horrible.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you're living there, it's like, jeez, it's
Speaker 1: pretty much like well, I'm sure your dad's told you
Speaker 1: your relatives just like five months of the year, it's brutal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, why do you think he's out here? He
Speaker 1: actually helped the buddy move when he came out here,
Speaker 1: and then he liked it so much that he drove
Speaker 1: right back, grabbed his stuff and drove right back to
Speaker 1: California because I'm moving here to the women in the weather.
Speaker 1: And he said, this is enough for me. There you go,
Speaker 1: what more do you need? That's it right there, done,
Speaker 1: problem solved right there, absolutely. And so now there's another thing.
Speaker 1: And I think you mentioned this on the show a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago that you know a guy that
Speaker 1: I know before I got into radio, I when I
Speaker 1: was in high school. To make a little extra money,
Speaker 1: I had a little side hustle where I would hang
Speaker 1: out and get autographs and then sell most of them.
Speaker 1: I didn't sell all of them, I sold most of them,
Speaker 1: and then I would spend the money to like go
Speaker 1: to games. I mean, I had a whole racket going.
Speaker 1: But there's and I haven't. I haven't really kept in
Speaker 1: contact with any of those guys that I ran with
Speaker 1: back in those days. But you know one of them, right,
Speaker 1: Do you're familiar with one of those guys that that
Speaker 1: knows the dark secrets of my past? Yes, yes, the
Speaker 1: very dark secrets. His name is Jim Rafferty and he
Speaker 1: owns a bar in Placentae at my hometown, like I
Speaker 1: was just talking about, called Kelly's Corner Tavern. It's the
Speaker 1: greatest bar. I worked there for a little bit right
Speaker 1: when I graduated college. Everyone I know, my family and
Speaker 1: my friends, we all go there. We support and we
Speaker 1: actually did a go fund me for him when this
Speaker 1: pandemic hit. And great guy and small world. You guys
Speaker 1: know each other, and you guys gotten into some dark
Speaker 1: days back in your what teenage days, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was in I was in high school, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was mostly in Anaheim. I did a little bit of
Speaker 1: l A stuff, but it was mostly in Anaheim. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we were just like stock baseball players at hotels and
Speaker 1: restaurants and we ran the joint. We had. It was
Speaker 1: wild back in in those days. Some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that that took place and at a great time, and
Speaker 1: we we found ways to sneak into the big a
Speaker 1: through the back. I mean stuff stuff you would be
Speaker 1: like sent to you know, the Who's goal for these days,
Speaker 1: but we we had a whole racket going back then.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun and so so that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And the other fun fact about about you,
Speaker 1: Kevin is you've actually had I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a fun fact, but you've had the COVID. Yes I am.
Speaker 1: I am at COVID vivor yes, yes, And you said
Speaker 1: it you had a very mild it didn't really affect
Speaker 1: you much. Am I correcting that? Yeah? I had the
Speaker 1: chills and some sweats for one night, just one overnight.
Speaker 1: I woke up and I had a feeling, you know,
Speaker 1: after that, but I went got tested and tested positive.
Speaker 1: But after that one night I had some sniffles like
Speaker 1: a mild cold for a couple of days, and then
Speaker 1: literally probably four or five days after that night, I
Speaker 1: was completely fine. A quarantine of course. Um. Actually quarantined
Speaker 1: with my dad because he tested positive the same same day,
Speaker 1: because we went out of town with each other the
Speaker 1: weekend before and he's sixty years old, and he was
Speaker 1: he had the same thing. He had one night of
Speaker 1: sweats and everything, and then he was good and we
Speaker 1: quarantined together for a couple of weeks. Wow. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so you did you lose your I've read that people
Speaker 1: lose their sense of smell and tasted. Did that happen
Speaker 1: to you? No? I didn't. I had I've had a
Speaker 1: few friends and family members actually have that to him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that didn't happen to me or my dad,
Speaker 1: And I'm very thankful for that for sure. Now, the
Speaker 1: people that you know that have lost their sense of
Speaker 1: taste and smell, has it come back yet or is
Speaker 1: it still gone? Oh? Yeah, No, it was just about
Speaker 1: a week or so, probably a little over a week maybe. UM.
Speaker 1: I think the person the longest I've known is maybe
Speaker 1: two weeks or so yeah, um, but now they're fine.
Speaker 1: They're fine now that this was what seven months ago now,
Speaker 1: back in early July. Okay, yeah, I got you, I
Speaker 1: got you. Everyone's good, all right, everyone's all right, just
Speaker 1: just checking in that. All right. Now we've learned. See there,
Speaker 1: we've learned a little bit about about you, Kim. Any
Speaker 1: other fun facts you'd like to share with the class
Speaker 1: or is that is that enough? Um? No, nothing on
Speaker 1: the top of my head. I'm not too interesting, you know.
Speaker 1: And just uh no, no, you're not supposed to say that.
Speaker 1: The first rule of advertising you never right, you never
Speaker 1: say I'm not I tell my wife this. You know,
Speaker 1: my my wife we've been selling some of the stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, my as we're going through my dad's stuff,
Speaker 1: the stuff we're getting rid of and whatever, and so
Speaker 1: rather than say, hey, you know this so and so
Speaker 1: is not that good, but do you want to know
Speaker 1: you you sell it and then you know, at the end,
Speaker 1: you start with a positive, go negative, and then go pause.
Speaker 1: I'm already learning a thing from you here, Ben, Yeah,
Speaker 1: eight minutes. Then, well, now see see what I learned, Kevin.
Speaker 1: I learned this about simple human nature, right I can.
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of meetings with program directors and
Speaker 1: radio and I've learned the tricks. Like they always start
Speaker 1: out with a positive boy, Ben, you sound really good.
Speaker 1: I like this show, and then they move into but
Speaker 1: and then they just bring down the hammer. But then
Speaker 1: they finished with oh, by the way, I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to hearing so and you know so
Speaker 1: they it's positive negative positive. Okay, Yeah, there's a whole
Speaker 1: science behind this. Well it works. It works for sales also,
Speaker 1: like works in the sales world. Also, okay, can I can?
Speaker 1: I'll say one thing then I do have another job.
Speaker 1: I run a h back company with my dad. That
Speaker 1: makes a little interesting, right, We have a faily business. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that we do on the side here look at now
Speaker 1: there's a lot of money in that, right, because they
Speaker 1: didn't they change the no that I mean they changed
Speaker 1: the in California a few years ago. Didn't They got
Speaker 1: rid of what's the free free Yes, yes it is
Speaker 1: that old, Yes, the R twenty two um free on.
Speaker 1: But yes, there's a lot of I've been doing that
Speaker 1: since I was probably sixteen, you know, helping them out.
Speaker 1: But the last four or five years I've definitely done
Speaker 1: a lot more with him and we are. Business is
Speaker 1: booming again this year. We had a little time off
Speaker 1: during the winter, but you know, as soon as that
Speaker 1: comes out in California, people they jump all over it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where I'm living, at the house I'm in right now,
Speaker 1: we actually have a free on air conditioning unit. And
Speaker 1: he told us, like, we're gonna have to get rid
Speaker 1: of it because when when it breaks, I guess you
Speaker 1: can't repair it or something like that. They said, yeah,
Speaker 1: like yeah, it's the whole like you were saying, the
Speaker 1: California rule. We have to put put the new free
Speaker 1: on in and the old systems don't take the uh
Speaker 1: the the new free on. They're just trying to cycle
Speaker 1: it out, if you will, kind of like the as
Speaker 1: best to the old duckwork stuff like that. And uh
Speaker 1: so if you ever need anything, you know who to call. Ben.
Speaker 1: I now I know I did not know that the
Speaker 1: things you learn, the things you learn. So now your
Speaker 1: dad taught you everything? And did you did you have
Speaker 1: to go to school or your dad taught you everything?
Speaker 1: Now he's taught me every thing. He went to school
Speaker 1: when he was younger, and he actually he works for
Speaker 1: l A County um as a refrigeration supervisor for the
Speaker 1: jails all in l A County jails downtown and then
Speaker 1: he kind of does this on the side. And he's
Speaker 1: taught me everything as far as residential UM since like
Speaker 1: I said, I was about sixteen or so, I've never
Speaker 1: gone to school for it. UM. I've gone to regular school,
Speaker 1: but not anything as far as a trade for it.
Speaker 1: Shot Dad has to go into the prisons and fix
Speaker 1: the refrigerators. He he used to be involved in the prisons.
Speaker 1: Now he's more of a supervisor sitting on the desk,
Speaker 1: but he kind of has it for most of his career,
Speaker 1: a truck route where he would go from um, yeah,
Speaker 1: either jails to jails, walk around. He's his first not
Speaker 1: first job, a main job for a while was a
Speaker 1: twin towers jail. And actually, you know what's funny, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about this since he worked with obviously Coope justin Samponia,
Speaker 1: was in Liar Liar. He was there when they were
Speaker 1: filming when when um Jim Carrey got arrested and that
Speaker 1: jail or in that scene where they're in the jail
Speaker 1: making a phone call. He was around for that. Oh
Speaker 1: is that right? Yeah, that's kind of fun factory. So
Speaker 1: how long does it take you? If somebody I'm just
Speaker 1: curious how the air conditioning business work, I wanta go
Speaker 1: back to that. So how how long if I call
Speaker 1: you up, I say I need my air conditioning replaced
Speaker 1: or whatever. You gotta buy this stuff, obviously, but can
Speaker 1: you just do it in? How many hours does it
Speaker 1: take to switch out in air condition Uh? Obviously it
Speaker 1: depends on the size of the house, the um, the system, everything.
Speaker 1: But if you I mean, if you're just changing out
Speaker 1: the equipment itself, meaning just like the furnace and just
Speaker 1: a condenser, we can get that done in one day.
Speaker 1: 'p about rip out the old stuff, putting the new.
Speaker 1: But then, you know, we like to do it the
Speaker 1: right way, as we say, and we like to keep
Speaker 1: it nice and clean and um we you know, take
Speaker 1: our time and we do it the right way and
Speaker 1: adding new duckwork. Everything is all about the duck work too,
Speaker 1: So it could take up to a few days, two
Speaker 1: to three days if you do the whole change out
Speaker 1: of everything. So you spend a lot of time in addicts, Yes,
Speaker 1: a lot of time. I'm the addic guy, that's what
Speaker 1: they call it. Your dad's probably get up in the
Speaker 1: are you're younger, try to keep him out, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know he's sixty now. I don't want him
Speaker 1: going up in there. That's where all the nasty stuff is, man,
Speaker 1: that's where the that's where the varmints are running around
Speaker 1: the attic. I bet you've seen some crazy stuff in attics, right,
Speaker 1: and bugs and critters and all that stuff. Yeah, you know. Surprisingly,
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen a lot, quite a few, but
Speaker 1: not as many as you would think. For how long
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for almost what almost fifteen years now,
Speaker 1: and I've probably only seen maybe two live rats. And
Speaker 1: I've seen plenty of dead ones and traps or something
Speaker 1: like that, but uh, not as much as you would think. Actually, Well,
Speaker 1: where I live at at the Mallard Mansion, I have
Speaker 1: heard critters running around in the attic, but I've never
Speaker 1: gone up to see what kind of critters there. I'm
Speaker 1: convinced it's like a squirrel. It's sounds because I have
Speaker 1: a lot of squirrels around where I live here, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking one of them got or two of them
Speaker 1: got in the attic and we're running around, but I
Speaker 1: haven't heard it. I think it died, so it's probably
Speaker 1: stuck up in there somewhere. Yeah, yeah, I I don't
Speaker 1: know if it has like a door it goes out
Speaker 1: and he's only there for the summertime, and I don't
Speaker 1: know anyway. All right, Well you're all the hot seat now, Kevin. Congratulations, Yes,
Speaker 1: all right. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven p
Speaker 1: m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio app. So I've I've memory Lane here I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about so before working with Eddie, I've been
Speaker 1: with Eddie for a long time. I did the Overnight
Speaker 1: show with Karen Ka KK, as we call her, and
Speaker 1: this week I reached out to Karen. I had not
Speaker 1: talked to Karen in a good amount of time, but
Speaker 1: on January, the day that Joe Biden was sworn in
Speaker 1: as the new President of the United States, I sent
Speaker 1: KK a text. And the reason I sent KK a
Speaker 1: text that was an important day. We like round numbers,
Speaker 1: we like anniversaries, human beings, right, markers because without without
Speaker 1: those markers, it's all just a big blob. Life's just
Speaker 1: a big blob. Right, That's the reason we have how
Speaker 1: of day is because otherwise it's just the monotony of
Speaker 1: the daily life, and you need things to break up
Speaker 1: the monotony, and so we have these holidays. But I
Speaker 1: reached out to KK Center a few text messages because
Speaker 1: that was the anniversary of something that we both have
Speaker 1: in common. That was the twelfth anniversary of my exit
Speaker 1: stage right. I've been working at Fox Sports Radio since
Speaker 1: it launched up until twenty o nine January nine. Barack
Speaker 1: Obama was to be sworn in as the President of
Speaker 1: the United States that particular day, and I was given
Speaker 1: the boot. I was excommunicated from from Fox Sports Trading
Speaker 1: one of the worst decisions they ever made, and so
Speaker 1: I was at that time. I remember very well. To
Speaker 1: give you the story. If you're new to the story
Speaker 1: and you've not heard it, I've told it a few
Speaker 1: times over the years. But I was looking forward, first
Speaker 1: of all, to watching the presidential inauguration, believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Even though I lean more to Team Read, I enjoy
Speaker 1: the political nonsense with presidents being sworn in things like that,
Speaker 1: and I always pulled for the president. Why would you
Speaker 1: not pull for the president because you're in America, whether
Speaker 1: it's a democratic Republican. So I've always believed in That's
Speaker 1: how I was raised, and so I was looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing it was historic. I heard a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of things Barack Obama, the first black president,
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. So I was looking forward to watching.
Speaker 1: And uh, the night before, the night before, it was
Speaker 1: one of the craziest nights in my radio journey. So
Speaker 1: at that time, the show is called The Third Shift
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller and came in. It was a normal night.
Speaker 1: I remember I was doing a monologue about Bill Kauer
Speaker 1: for some reason. That's what I remember. I don't remember
Speaker 1: exactly what I was saying about Bill Kauer, but I was.
Speaker 1: I was doing some rift about Bill Kauer. And I
Speaker 1: forget what exactly had happened, whether he had left the
Speaker 1: Steelers or just left the Steelers, or he was up
Speaker 1: for a coaching job somewhere else, or there was some
Speaker 1: something with Bill Kauer that was going on at that time.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing my thing talking about Kaur, and I
Speaker 1: I got tipped off from someone that we were going
Speaker 1: to be fired or laid off, however you want to
Speaker 1: call it. The next day. Now, keep in mind that
Speaker 1: that breaks the fourth wall. If you will. I think
Speaker 1: I'm saying it the right way here, because there's a
Speaker 1: cardinal rule in radio that you never get a final show.
Speaker 1: You never get a final show. Now, there are exceptions
Speaker 1: to the rule if you're all time legend and they
Speaker 1: let you get a final show and you could say goodbye.
Speaker 1: But generally speaking, if you're just a rank and file
Speaker 1: radio person, you don't get a final show. Your final show,
Speaker 1: they pull you at the end of the show. They
Speaker 1: give you an envelope with some cash and say, get
Speaker 1: the hell out of here and take up here's a
Speaker 1: box and fill it up. Um. But technically that night,
Speaker 1: that final night, I think it was like a Monday.
Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, I'd have to go back and check.
Speaker 1: But we did get a final show because the company
Speaker 1: had sent out an email. I got an email about
Speaker 1: I think it was about half an hour into the
Speaker 1: overnight show that said there was a mandatory meeting at
Speaker 1: three o'clock the next day. Now, if you know how
Speaker 1: corporate America works and the corporate world, they don't send
Speaker 1: emails telling you to go to a meeting after five pm,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like during regular business hours,
Speaker 1: you would send an email you on eight in the morning,
Speaker 1: nine ten, went all the way up through like about
Speaker 1: five o'clock, but after that generally is ABO. So I
Speaker 1: get this email, you know, late at night demanding that
Speaker 1: I show up for this very important meeting at three
Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon on So this is actually January.
Speaker 1: It's the overnight in early morning hours on January twenty,
Speaker 1: if you could say it's nineteen. But so anyway, I
Speaker 1: get the email whatever, and uh, and then we were
Speaker 1: tipped off before that that there were going to be
Speaker 1: mass layoffs coming and a number of us were going
Speaker 1: to be uh, let go, And so I was numb.
Speaker 1: I remember the feeling I had was numb. I was
Speaker 1: like it was I couldn't focus on anything, and it
Speaker 1: was really you know, you imagine the feeling you've been
Speaker 1: in a situation similar in your life. And so anyway,
Speaker 1: I called the text care and K this week to reminiscence.
Speaker 1: I did not reach out to Bergie. I was gonna
Speaker 1: text Burgie. He's a big radio executive now, Gregg Bergman
Speaker 1: was my producer at the time, and he's uh, he's
Speaker 1: doing very well for himself in in l A radio.
Speaker 1: So I did not reach out to him, but I
Speaker 1: did reach out to k Kay. I also remember that day.
Speaker 1: I recall calling my dear old mom as she rest
Speaker 1: in peace, and I had to tell her Mom, I
Speaker 1: got let go again, and uh, because I had been
Speaker 1: let going a long time. But I I had had
Speaker 1: a few um divorces, shall we say, in the early
Speaker 1: part of my my radio career, but usually I I
Speaker 1: was pretty lucky where I would just transfer, like I
Speaker 1: started in San Diego Radio. I did that for a
Speaker 1: few years in the nineties, and then they the company
Speaker 1: I was working for, launched the station in the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles market, and I was based in Orange County, covering
Speaker 1: all of southern California, mostly l A in Orange County,
Speaker 1: and so they're like, well, you're already in l A.
Speaker 1: Why don't we just transfer you to the l A station.
Speaker 1: So I went there. They then got rid of me,
Speaker 1: so I got laid off from that. I had a
Speaker 1: college football job I got laid off from or fired
Speaker 1: everyone to say it. And there were a few other
Speaker 1: sporadic things, but it had been a decent amount of
Speaker 1: time since that before I got the the Walking Papers
Speaker 1: from from Fox, but it only lasted six months. In
Speaker 1: twenty six days, and during that time I filled in
Speaker 1: at a couple of radio stations. I had auditions, I
Speaker 1: did some, but that was my first appearance actually doing
Speaker 1: local radio at w e I filled in for the
Speaker 1: great Mikey Adams on w e I, and that was
Speaker 1: my first taste of that. The show that I had
Speaker 1: done was on in the Boston market. We did pretty
Speaker 1: well there and so that was cool, had a good time,
Speaker 1: and but my mom was very supportive, as you know,
Speaker 1: that's what a good mom does, and encouraged me to
Speaker 1: keep you know, get back and get another job. Blah blah.
Speaker 1: You know, these people are radiots, blah blah blah. But uh,
Speaker 1: but it only lasted about seven months, a little less
Speaker 1: than that, and then I came back. And so I've
Speaker 1: been back at the company for I guess eleven and
Speaker 1: a half years, almost eleven and a half years. The
Speaker 1: second run. The first run was uh what nine years?
Speaker 1: It was nine years, and then the second run has
Speaker 1: been Yeah, so it's all all together. It's over twenty
Speaker 1: years now. Which where the hell has that? How the
Speaker 1: hell did that happen? Uh, my goods. I want to
Speaker 1: share that with the order to share that with you
Speaker 1: and Uh. So that's that's the deal. All right. Now
Speaker 1: we have pop Quiz pop quiz coming away, and so
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring back Kevin. Kevin O'Connell f he was
Speaker 1: on the hot Seedoise. So the way this works, Kevin
Speaker 1: is I will I I searched the internet. I find
Speaker 1: interesting questions somewhat pop culture related. When I say popcorn,
Speaker 1: it's like mostly about day to day life, the American
Speaker 1: experience living life day to day, right, and so then
Speaker 1: you have to try to answer and uh, and then
Speaker 1: that's how we're gonna be Okay, I got it, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, so here we go. This is a pop quiz. Uh.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine percent of parents have admitted they've used their
Speaker 1: kid as an excuse to buy this. What is it
Speaker 1: to buy an? This? A TV? TV? Alright, kids love television.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad yes? Uh no? Happy meal? What? Yeah? Really?
Speaker 1: Why would you buy would be meal? Why would you
Speaker 1: buy a happy meal? If you're an adult? I don't know,
Speaker 1: what do you want the toy? Maybe a happy meal?
Speaker 1: Well it could be it could be on a diet
Speaker 1: or something like that, and they just want the kiddie
Speaker 1: meal because it's smaller portions. So maybe they want those
Speaker 1: apple slices that you can get with that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I feel like if you really want those, you
Speaker 1: can order them separately. But he eats their own. I
Speaker 1: guess a happy meal. Okay, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: like eating happy meals when I was a kid because
Speaker 1: it wasn't enough food. I mean, I liked, I like
Speaker 1: the toy. I was all about the toy. But man, yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of shorts you on those. Yeah, alright. One
Speaker 1: in four of us cannot name a single one of these.
Speaker 1: One in four people cannot name a single one of these.
Speaker 1: One in four cannot name it. It's something, it's something
Speaker 1: involved in like, uh, like a neighborhood, shall we say,
Speaker 1: like something you would do in a neighborhood or something
Speaker 1: you would do in a neighborhood. One four cannot name.
Speaker 1: One in four cannot name some one of these is
Speaker 1: that you said? Yes? Um alright, So twenty five people
Speaker 1: cannot name a single name neighbor, neighbor? Yeah, really, can
Speaker 1: you name the can you name the people you have?
Speaker 1: You said you live in Pasadena or can you name
Speaker 1: the people you live around in Pasadena that live right
Speaker 1: next to you? I only know one person that lives
Speaker 1: in my apartment building below me, and his name is Lile.
Speaker 1: I believe I'm not even totally confident in that either. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: I'm the same way when I now I live in
Speaker 1: a in a house now, When I lived in an apartment,
Speaker 1: I live in an apartment in Hollywood for years, and
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people coming and going. I
Speaker 1: didn't know anyone on my entire floor that I lived
Speaker 1: on above below nobody. Yeah, I was. I'm mostly a
Speaker 1: shut in anyway. I'm you know, I'm I'm an introvert,
Speaker 1: but I I didn't know anyway now here. I know
Speaker 1: I have a couple of friends in the neighborhood, but
Speaker 1: as far as the people that lived directly on either side,
Speaker 1: I don't really know them. I don't even really know
Speaker 1: their names. Like if somebody came up to me and said, hey,
Speaker 1: so and so needs some help, I'd be like, who
Speaker 1: the hell is that? I don't know that. I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I mean, they're nice people and they're good neighbors,
Speaker 1: but I just don't know their names. So you don't walk.
Speaker 1: You don't walk in the streets and say, hey, Jim,
Speaker 1: how's it going today or good morning Karen. Oh god, no, no,
Speaker 1: I I don't want to be the busy body I
Speaker 1: hate because I'm annoyed by the busy body. You know.
Speaker 1: You know, I stay out of my business. You know,
Speaker 1: I leave me alone. I'm that kind of guy. I'm
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, I I like it all right. When
Speaker 1: it comes to first, you know, the first, this the
Speaker 1: first that people remember their first what more than anything,
Speaker 1: You're gonna go third rail on this, um, what do
Speaker 1: you I mean? What do you remember? That was the
Speaker 1: first experience that that's the most vivid thing that your car.
Speaker 1: That's right, yes, get you, there we go. They say.
Speaker 1: A new study says that people remember their type of
Speaker 1: car they had first. That's the thing that they remember.
Speaker 1: I do, Yeah, I got My first car was a
Speaker 1: brown Volari. Was my grandfather's, my my dad's dad's car.
Speaker 1: And it it was like awesome. It was this big
Speaker 1: boat of a car. You know, anybody's first car is
Speaker 1: good because it's your freedom. But I loved that car.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of smelled like my grandpa, you know,
Speaker 1: had his his cologne smell, even years after he passed away.
Speaker 1: And it was big scenes it was like sitting on
Speaker 1: a sofa. I love that car was great. Valari. I've
Speaker 1: never even heard of that. Yeah, it's an outdated card,
Speaker 1: so you know from a different, different what was your
Speaker 1: first car? Uh? Silverado Chevy Silverado Verado Christmas Morning. It's
Speaker 1: like I can every time I hear that, I hear
Speaker 1: like Petro singing, singing in one of those commercials he
Speaker 1: did back in the day, the Silverado thing. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern Pacific. Alright. According to a new survey,
Speaker 1: thirty six percent of people claim that they order this
Speaker 1: at a restaurant and they go out to eat because
Speaker 1: they hardly ever make it at home. What is it? Uh,
Speaker 1: they hardly ever make it up. There's almost there's almost
Speaker 1: of people Wow that order this be because they don't
Speaker 1: make it at home. Hardly ever, they don't make it
Speaker 1: at home. Yeah, I feel like it's something simple. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll be like steak, Yeah, let's go
Speaker 1: with the let's just go let's go with a steak.
Speaker 1: Why not steak? Alright? It's fine. Guests probably off, but
Speaker 1: you're off. It's the opposite of steak salad. Really that
Speaker 1: popped on my head for a second, but I was like,
Speaker 1: those are so easy to make. My theory is that
Speaker 1: the reason people order salad when they go to a
Speaker 1: restaurant is because it makes them look like they're healthy.
Speaker 1: Good right, yes, absolutely, And the other people that put
Speaker 1: that person is healthy. They're eating salad covered with three
Speaker 1: gallons of salad dressing and a pound of crutons, but
Speaker 1: they're they're healthy. Don't forget the cheese, that's right, cheese, cheese, man,
Speaker 1: But it's still a salad, right, yeah, exactly. My My
Speaker 1: only idea, well is when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: my mom would try to get me to eat salad,
Speaker 1: I would never do it, but I'd eat the crutons.
Speaker 1: I'd always eat the crutons and the cheese that's right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the and the salad dressing. That was always good
Speaker 1: to con drink the salad dressing. All right, we're doing
Speaker 1: pop quiz here. Next up. Since the pandemic began, doctors
Speaker 1: are reporting a tremendous increase in this type of injury
Speaker 1: with people staying at home quite a bit. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know what, Let's stay on the cooking. Let's go with
Speaker 1: some type of or something. Yeah, burn, like a cut
Speaker 1: on your hand from a knife, something like that. Let's
Speaker 1: go with the burn though, actually because not not too
Speaker 1: many people use a knife, so we'll go to burn,
Speaker 1: all right. Uh? No, broken toes? Why would that? Was that?
Speaker 1: People walking around and they have the lights off and
Speaker 1: they kick into something? Why would why would that be?
Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense to me. There's gotta be a
Speaker 1: reason for it's got Let's think about this logically. Why
Speaker 1: would people have more broken toes staying at home? So? Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you get it from the couch and
Speaker 1: you kick your center or your Yeah, like I can
Speaker 1: see that. But if you're home all the time, don't
Speaker 1: you then have more of a lay of the land.
Speaker 1: You can navigate your furniture at your house wherever you're at,
Speaker 1: right because you're there all the time, So you would
Speaker 1: think so maybe maybe it's kids running around and causing
Speaker 1: a records inside the house or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, all right. Uh, here's another one related
Speaker 1: to the We have a few more related to the pandemic.
Speaker 1: According to a recent survey, this was the most popular
Speaker 1: hobby in the most popular hobby in the most popular hobby,
Speaker 1: says learning a new instrument, cooking. Oh god damn, why
Speaker 1: did I say on the culinary? Yeah, that's because everyone
Speaker 1: the restaurant. It's hard to get food. Do the rest
Speaker 1: take out some places only, and no indoor dining and
Speaker 1: all that. Just just no salads though, No salads, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: so you can't because that's good the lettuce and the
Speaker 1: Bible cheese and yet all right. Last year there were
Speaker 1: many people taking part in outdoor activities obviously, right people,
Speaker 1: because that's you know, couldn't go indoors a lot of places.
Speaker 1: The largest increase was golf. Golf was the biggest increase.
Speaker 1: What was number two? Though? Outdoor activities? Outdoor activities golf?
Speaker 1: I don't even know, m what can you play outdoors? Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be a sport, it could just
Speaker 1: be an activity. H Um. It's just I don't know running,
Speaker 1: I guess running, all right? Uh? No gardening, Oh, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't get your green thumb gone. Yeah, okay, I don't
Speaker 1: do any garden myself, so that didn't even pop in
Speaker 1: my head. Even an apartment. Why would you do garden?
Speaker 1: Have you do indo indoor gardening? But that's get you
Speaker 1: in trouble depending on what you're growing in there. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: all right. Most couples tend to do this in January
Speaker 1: more than any other month of the year. This is
Speaker 1: the most probably thing to do in January as opposed
Speaker 1: to any other month. What, um, well, before I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go time before the let's go No, not vacation, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. Um, alright, I'll give it to you get divorced,
Speaker 1: break up? Really the holidays did? Yeah? Yeah, it's obvious, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta get together with you gotta stay
Speaker 1: together during Thanksgiving and Christmas, so for the in laws
Speaker 1: or the relatives whatever, and then after that you got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a break. But you gotta break
Speaker 1: up in January because you don't want to still begether
Speaker 1: if you the other person when like Valentine's Day comes around, right,
Speaker 1: you want to So you've got a little time there,
Speaker 1: and and that's the sweet spot, that's the Goldilocks zone
Speaker 1: to break up is in in January. So damn wonderful. Alright,
Speaker 1: six inten people speaking of that, six and ten people
Speaker 1: say that they definitely delete this after a breakup. What
Speaker 1: is it? They definitely delete this after a breakup. Uh
Speaker 1: delete this, delete this. It's gotta be an with an
Speaker 1: app no pictures? Uh no, it's the our song. You
Speaker 1: know that, You know how couples have a song many relationships.
Speaker 1: I've been and ben. Are you dating anybody? Here? Are you?
Speaker 1: You're not? Want you want me to hook you up?
Speaker 1: You have a dating service, Kevin. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of great members of the Malley Militia that if you want,
Speaker 1: I can you know, I can hook you up. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know I'm a single man looking for something. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's tough being single during the pandemic. It's hard to
Speaker 1: be in anybody. It's the worse since it's very tough. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone's like looks at you like you got cooties and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah, alright, so what's next? One third? Here's
Speaker 1: one one third of people admit to eating this after
Speaker 1: it's been left out all night. What is one third
Speaker 1: after it's left up all night? Food? Food dish? You
Speaker 1: leave it out on the table all night, you get up,
Speaker 1: You're like, I'd like to have some of that depends
Speaker 1: if you're hungover, maybe, but well, this is a food
Speaker 1: that often goes with being hungover. I was gonna say pizza, Yes, yes, okay, okay, alright.
Speaker 1: Pizza is the most malleable food you can. You can
Speaker 1: eat it hot, cold, laying out around on the table.
Speaker 1: It's could be the most perfect food dish. That's a
Speaker 1: weasel term. But is there any other food that you
Speaker 1: can just have lay around that you would like eating?
Speaker 1: Like if I like tacos, if I left tacos on
Speaker 1: the down or all night, I wouldn't eat them. I
Speaker 1: like a cheeseburger. If I eat a cheeseburger after it's
Speaker 1: been laying around, I'd probably get some disease or something.
Speaker 1: Is But pizza anytime, any temperature, anywhere, you canna eat it?
Speaker 1: All right? A fifty one of people say they would
Speaker 1: rather have jury duty then give up blank for a week.
Speaker 1: What is it? Uh? Give up their phone? Their phone? Alright?
Speaker 1: No coffee? Oh wow, I'm not a coffee drinker. Are
Speaker 1: you a coffee drinker? I am a coffee drinker, not heavy,
Speaker 1: but I do have one cup every morning when I
Speaker 1: wake up. Are you like Bougie or like a chain
Speaker 1: coffee place? So you make it at home? I mean
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I Well, I usually make it
Speaker 1: at home. But I love Starbucks. I'm no shame in
Speaker 1: that I love Starbucks. My wife is addicted to Starbucks
Speaker 1: to so I I have to get like the the
Speaker 1: tea lemonade thing because I don't drink coffee, so you
Speaker 1: drink a lot of tea or now the only when
Speaker 1: she goes to Starbucks and gets no no, my, my, my.
Speaker 1: My experience with tea is whenever I feel like my
Speaker 1: I might be getting sick, like I have a throat
Speaker 1: issue or you know, you feel that raspiness in your
Speaker 1: voice when you're about to get sick, So then I
Speaker 1: immediately start drinking gallons of tea and sucking on garlic
Speaker 1: to try to kill the illness in my throat. But
Speaker 1: that's about it. Man. Tea's okay. I don't hate it,
Speaker 1: but usually you end up having to put sugar and
Speaker 1: crap in it, and it's not particularly great for you.
Speaker 1: So alright, you know a few more here as we
Speaker 1: press on with this wonderful Saturday edition of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh do we have here? Uh see any meany mighty?
Speaker 1: All right? The top three things in almost everybody's car,
Speaker 1: all right. Number one on the floor of the car
Speaker 1: a French fry number two is a car Fa cup
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in my car? And then number three? What
Speaker 1: is number three? And some of his car? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: stuff you would find if you just randomly went to
Speaker 1: a garage and went through some cars, you'd find these
Speaker 1: three things. Coffee cup, French fry, and uh it's kind
Speaker 1: of trash. Well that's a general I like that because
Speaker 1: you could you could argue a French fry trash, right,
Speaker 1: That's why I was kind of reluctant to say it.
Speaker 1: I understand, but you did say it. You said it.
Speaker 1: Let's go with the let's go with a hat, a hat,
Speaker 1: all right? Uh no, how about like lip bomb chapstick?
Speaker 1: You know that stuff? You get that laying around the
Speaker 1: car in case it's windy and you get dry lips
Speaker 1: and you need that, you know. Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I have one in my truck right there. I'm ready
Speaker 1: to go ahead all times. So that prepared like a
Speaker 1: like a boy scout. You have to be prepared, absolutely are.
Speaker 1: A new report claims the average person will say this
Speaker 1: roughly five times by the end of today. What will
Speaker 1: they say five times a day? On average? We say
Speaker 1: this every single day? Is it only one word that's
Speaker 1: more than one word. Let's go with two words, two words.
Speaker 1: Let's go with uh, you know, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't know, you know, you don't know, don't you
Speaker 1: don't you don't know what you don't know? You know
Speaker 1: you don't know the answer. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. I've met my quota.
Speaker 1: I've now met my quota. Thank you, So I do
Speaker 1: not have to say thank you any more. Ah. So
Speaker 1: that that's it for pop quiz. There was I saw
Speaker 1: a couple of bizarre stories that I caught my chips.
Speaker 1: I always love weird athlete injury stories. There was a
Speaker 1: story going around that a twenty five year old guy
Speaker 1: had to retire from sport because of a thumb injury.
Speaker 1: Where this video game guy, twenty five year old professional
Speaker 1: video game player forced to retire because of a thumb injury.
Speaker 1: How about that? Really? Yeah? He said? He wrote. It
Speaker 1: breaks my heart to step away from from a game
Speaker 1: I put my heart and soul into every single day
Speaker 1: for eight years, he said. And this guy's a New
Speaker 1: York I played. He's gonna call of duty E sports situation. Wow, well, uh,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of gaming. If you have to retire
Speaker 1: because of your thumb. You've used it so much a
Speaker 1: lot of gaming. I guess be careful though, ripping the gamers, Kevin,
Speaker 1: because I had a kid that called me up from
Speaker 1: Boston and he was a professional gamer. He got hired,
Speaker 1: they moved into l A and I believe he at
Speaker 1: and he was like nineteen or something like that and
Speaker 1: was making a ton more money than I was making
Speaker 1: playing video games all day and living in a house
Speaker 1: with a bunch of other video game nerds. Isn't that crazy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wonderful. It's a wonderful world. Man, It's not my world.
Speaker 1: But hey, if people making money like that, then you
Speaker 1: can't can't hate on it. Yeah, if you're thinking, I
Speaker 1: guess find a way to beat the system. That's the
Speaker 1: way the way to do it. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: put the baby to bed. We thank you again. We'll
Speaker 1: have another podcast on Sunday. Sundays Sunday. I guess I
Speaker 1: just said thank you another time, So I'll thank you
Speaker 1: Kevin as well for sitting in for Gagon. And I
Speaker 1: like you because you don't live west of the four
Speaker 1: oh five. You live east of the four oh five,
Speaker 1: So that's good. That's a point of demarcation for me.
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